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Manchak, John Byron
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics, 02/2013Book Chapter, Book
This chapter, which examines global spacetime structure and the qualitative, primarily topological and causal, aspects of general relativity, proposes an abstract classification of local and global spacetime properties and identifies a set of causal conditions that form a strict hierarchy of possible casual properties of spacetime. It also addresses the philosophical questions concerning the physical reasonableness of these various spacetime properties and considers the notion of geodesic incompleteness.
